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A conversation with Rosa Garcia Piñero, President of Alcoa Foundation, to understand the goals of the partnership

Official Virtual Side Event: UN 2023 Water Conference
Saturday 18 March 2023 (7:00am-9:45am EST)

On Wednesday 25 January 2023, the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) organized this online event as part of its Webinar Series: "The Transforming Power of Law: Addressing Global Environmental Challenges". The webinar had more had 900 registrants and counted with the…

IMPAC5 has provided a unique opportunity for the global ocean community to convene and transform the Kunming-Montreal Framework from bold ambition to action, with youth and indigenous voices front and centre. 

The second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, will tentatively take place in Paris, France from 29 May to 2 June.

IUCN welcomes the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, which was adopted at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15) in Montreal, Canada on 19 December 2022 after four long years of negotiations. We congratulate the Chinese Presidency, Canadian hosts and the CBD secretariat for their…

Montreal, Canada, 12 December 2022 (IUCN) – The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has today published its first Restoration Barometer report, documenting that…

Montreal, Canada, 8 December 2022 (IUCN) - Twenty million jobs could be created by further harnessing the power of nature to address major challenges facing society, such as climate change, disaster risk, and food and water insecurity.

In this month’s ‘Early-Career Voices’ we sat down with Ms. Aditi Shetye, Executive Assistant of the IUCN WCEL Climate Change Law Specialist Group, and Academic Taskforce Co-ordinator at World's Youth for Climate Justice (WYCJ), to learn more about her exciting path into international climate…

Dear IUCN Members,

As IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), we have an enormous responsibility. Since 1948, we have been the global authority keeping our finger on the pulse of biodiversity.